Oregon criminal law — ORS Title 16 (2025 snapshot) · legal_authorities
161.515 “Crime” described. (1) A crime is an offense for which a sentence of imprisonment is authorized. (2) A crime is either a felony or a misdemeanor. [1971 c.743 §66]
Source: Oregon Legislature — ORS 2025 Edition, Chapter 161 · ORS 161.515
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Oregon criminal law — ORS Title 16 (2025 snapshot) · legal_authorities
161.505 “Offense” described. An offense is conduct for which a sentence to a term of imprisonment or to a fine is provided by any law of this state or by any law or ordinance of a political subdivision of this state. An offense is either a crime, as described in ORS 161.515, or a violation, as described in ORS 153.008. [1971 c.743 §65; 1975 c.451 §173; 1981 c.626 §2; 1981 c.692 §7; 1999 c.1051 §43]
Source: Oregon Legislature — ORS 2025 Edition, Chapter 161 · ORS 161.505
Stored review status: 2025_edition_later_amendments_unresolved. Incoming connection: Explicit ORS citation in the printed section; applicability is unreviewed.
Oregon criminal law — ORS Title 16 (2025 snapshot) · legal_authorities
166.715 Definitions for ORS 166.715 to 166.735. As used in ORS 166.715 to 166.735, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Documentary material” means any book, paper, document, writing, drawing, graph, chart, photograph, phonograph record, magnetic tape, computer printout, other data compilation from which information can be obtained or from which information can be translated into usable form, or other tangible item. (2) “Enterprise” includes any individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, business trust or other profit or nonprofit legal entity, and includes any union, association or group of individuals associated in fact although not a legal entity, and both illicit and licit enterprises and governmental and nongovernmental entities. (3) “Investigative agency” means the Department of Justice or any district attorney. (4) “Pattern of racketeering activity” means engaging in at least two incidents of racketeering activity that have the same or similar intents, results, accomplices, victims or methods of commission or otherwise are interrelated by distinguishing characteristics, including a nexus to the same enterprise, and are not isolated incidents, provided at least one of such incidents occurred after November 1, 1981, and that the last of such incidents occurred within five years after a prior incident of racketeering activity. Notwithstanding ORS 131.505 to 131.525 or 419A.190 or any other provision of law providing that a previous prosecution is a bar to a subsequent prosecution, conduct that constitutes an incident of racketeering activity may be used to establish a pattern of racketeering activity without regard to whether the conduct previously has been the subject of a criminal prosecution or conviction or a juvenile court adjudicatio
Source: Oregon Legislature — ORS 2025 Edition, Chapter 166 · ORS 166.715
Stored review status: 2025_edition_later_amendments_unresolved. Incoming connection: Explicit ORS citation in the printed section; applicability is unreviewed.